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First during the line breaking stage, we break up into "lines" that start PStart, PEnd or PQL% (This is only necessary if a PEnd line may contain carrage returns or line feeds, otherwise you can get away with the default ([\r\n]+) here

Then during line merging, we only break events before a PStart or PQL% line... this gets us our rough separation of events... but then with the MUST_NOT_BREAK_AFTER / MUST_BREAK_AFTER combination, we can ensure that from PStart to PEnd is a single block. (Obviously does not support embedding, but works single level).

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